A 5 hour ride in a school bus --the worst kind of hell.
As opposed to 5 days with out food or water surround by rapists and murders?
Are you kidding? We used to do that for football games in with all our gear. It can be okay. I figure they'll stop every couple of hours for a biobreak anyway.
Not if NOLA's in your rear view!
Worse than being trapped in the convention center without power, food, water and being subject to every kind of depraved criminal?
We reallyneed network reporters accompanying the travellers on these busses, telling us how horrid the conditions are...reporting every vomit...and how these people are being forced to live in such squalid conditions because Bush couldn't get their end-of-the month checks earlier to them, and so they had to wait for them, and that kept them bound and tied to the Washbowl.
[Now mind you, I'm not downplaying the conditions inside the Super Dome...but the conditions inside there are a tad bit better than a good chunk of the Third World or rebel-infested Civil Wars in some countries...and I don't see reporters freaking out over those conditions...Nor has the violent crime rate necessarily gone up in NO...actually, it may be lower than an average Summer night...and certainly the overall immorality rate may actually have plummeted in NO...but if you're expecting perspective from the Mainstream Media, don't hold your breath]